Disposable glove cartridge

ABSTRACT

The present invention disclosed a hanging disposable gloves cartridge, which includes a plurality of disposable gloves alignedly overlapped with each other to form a glove stack, wherein each of the disposable gloves has a perforated tear line transversely spanned thereon for separate a hand portion from a waist portion; a clamp holder, which includes a pair of mounting wings for substantially sandwiching the glove stack there between at a position above the tear lines of the disposable gloves, wherein each of the disposable gloves are made of two layers of film forming a hand cavity therebetween, a human hand is able to insert into the hand cavity to shell off an outermost dispose glove from the cartridge.

BACKGROUND OF THE PRESENT INVENTION

1. Field of Invention

The present invention relates to disposable gloves, and moreparticularly, relates to a disposable glove cartridge, which enables auser easily and quickly retrieve individual glove from the cartridgewith a handy and convenient manner.

2. Description of Related Arts

Nowadays, people living in the civilized world have been changed to bemore and more environment and health concerned. Unsurprisingly, hygieneenforcement equipments, such as disposable gloves, became mandatorymeans in many occasions for accustoming a clean or sterile environment.Needless to say, there would be enormous requirements for disposalgloves in medical industry and food industry. This is due to the factthat the disposable gloves are capable of minimizing the spread ofviruses and other contaminants among individuals. The likelihood of thedirty means transmission between personnel' hands and foods to be servedwill be significantly reduced.

Moreover, the food handlers are required to frequently replace thegloves under certain circumstances. For instance, in foodserviceindustry, a food-dispatching employee would have to handle a variety ofitems at the same time, wherein different items are probably notpermitted to contact with each other. As a result, the food servicepersonnel are willing to wear an easily replaceable glove from time totime. That is to say, every time he touched one item of the food, hewould discard the used or contaminated glove immediately, and then donanother new glove in a prompted manner to touch another item.

To satisfy such special requirements in the food industry and medicalindustry, many types of cheaper and reliable thermoplastic disposablegloves have been introduced into the market. The disposable gloves areinterposed together with an overlapped manner to form a multi-layerstructure. As a result, the food service personnel are able tofrequently replace the gloves by carrying on such multi-layer disposablegloves.

Commonly, such multi-layer gloves could be sold in a dispenser having aslot defined thereon, and the user are able to retrieve the gloves fromthe slot of the dispenser one by one in routine application. In otherwords, such kind of disposable glove is just defined like a paper tissueremoved from a tissue dispenser.

Unfortunately, the disposable gloves are different with the tissue paperin physical properties and functional characteristics. The disposablegloves are made of plastic materials and prepared to have an opening forinsertion into a human hand. When the gloves are removed from thedispenser, the thermoplastic gloves are susceptible to be creased ordeformed in shape. It would be troublesome for food service personnel tostraighten out the plastic gloves first and then figure out where is theopening to insert his hand. In other words, the disposable glovesretrieved from such gloves dispenser would be difficult to be instantlyserviceable.

What is more, since the food service personnel always change the glovesunder a flurry time-saving circumstance. Inadvertent removal of morethan one glove would be inevitable thus causing unnecessary wastes ofsuch disposable gloves. It is desirable to develop an improveddisposable gloves dispensing arrangement for overcoming above-mentionedproblems of the conventional disposable gloves.

SUMMARY OF THE PRESENT INVENTION

A primary object of the present invention is to provide a disposableglove cartridge, which is easily carried by a user for ensuring areliable and efficient glove dispensing procedure.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a disposable glovecartridge, wherein a human hand could be easily and quickly insertedinto each individual glove so as to release the disposable glove fromthe cartridge, as a result, a user is able to simultaneously retrievethe glove and insert his hand into the glove for achieving a timesavingserviceable purpose.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a disposable glovecartridge, wherein no complicated enclosure or dispenser would berequired for supporting the glove cartridge in position; that is to say,the disposable glove cartridge is capable of being carried by the userin a handy manner or detachably attached to a nearby object.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a disposable glovecartridge having a plurality of disposable gloves, wherein frequent andregular retrieval of a new glove would not affect the reuse function ofthe glove cartridge; in other words, the glove cartridge would bemaintain a ready-to-use condition after a repetitious removal of thedisposable gloves, the outermost glove of the disposable glove cartridgeis always ready to be serviceable.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a disposable glovecartridge, wherein each glove of the cartridge could be removed safelyand efficiently, that is to say, whenever a user is willing to retrievea glove, there is no possibility that more than one gloves shelled offfrom the cartridge at the same time.

Accordingly, to achieve above mentioned objects, the present inventionprovides a hanging disposable gloves cartridge, comprising:

a plurality of disposable gloves alignedly overlapped with each other toform a glove stack, wherein each of the disposable gloves has atransverse perforated tear line spanned thereon for dividing thedisposable glove into a waist portion and a hand portion; and

a clamp holder, which comprises a pair of mounting wings forsubstantially sandwiching the glove stack there between at a positionabove the tear lines of the disposable gloves, and means for attachingthe clamp holder to an object so as to enable the disposable glovessupported by the object with an individually suspended manner;

wherein each of the hand portions has a first layer bordered theperforated tear line and a second layer having a peripheral edge seamedwith the first layer so as to form a hand cavity between the first layerand the second layer for receiving a human hand, and automatically leavean elongated opening adjacent to the perforated tear line for permittingthe human hand slipped into the hand cavity to peel off the hand portionof an outermost disposable glove of the glove stack from the cartridge.

These and other objectives, features, and advantages of the presentinvention will become apparent from the following detailed description,the accompanying drawings, and the appended claims.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a hanging disposable glove cartridgeaccording to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a perspective view of the disposable glove cartridge accordingto above preferred embodiment of the present invention showing anoutermost glove is torn off from the cartridge by a human hand.

FIG. 3 is a perspective view of the disposable glove cartridge accordingto the preferred embodiment showing an alternative mode of the clampingholder for suspendedly supporting the disposable gloves in position.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT

Referring to the FIG. 1 to FIG. 3, a hanging disposable glove cartridgeaccording to a preferred embodiment of the present invention isillustrated. The hanging disposable glove cartridge 1 comprises aplurality of disposable gloves 10 alignedly overlapped with each otherto form a glove stack 101, wherein each of the disposable gloves 10 hasa transverse perforated tear line 110 for dividing the disposable glove10 into a waist portion 11 and a hand portion 12.

That is to say, the hand portion 12 is integrally extended from thewaist portion 11 to conform a human hand shape. Furthermore, thedisposable glove cartridge 1 comprises a clamp holder 20, whichcomprises a pair of mounting wings 21 for substantially sandwiching theglove stack 101 there-between at a position above the tear line 110 ofthe disposable gloves, and means 22 for attaching the clamp holder 20 toan object so as to enable the disposable gloves 10 attached onto theobject with an individually suspended manner. Here, the mounting wings21 are respectively provided at either side of the glove stack 101 forretaining the plurality of waist portions 11 in position so as tosuspend the glove stack 101 as shown in FIG. 2.

What is more, each of the hand portions 12 has a first layer 121bordered with the perforated tear line 110 and a second layer 122 havinga peripheral edge 123 seamed with the first layer 121 along an humanhand shape so as to form a hand cavity 30 between the first layer 121and the second layer 122 for receiving a human hand and automaticallydefine an elongated opening 31 adjacent to the tear line 110 forallowing the human hand slipped into the hand cavity 30 to peel off thehand portion 12 of an outermost dispose glove 10 from the cartridge 1.

Preferably, the glove stack 101 of the disposable gloves cartridge 1 isprepared by generally overlaying a plurality of identical disposablegloves 10. In the present invention, the disposable gloves 10 are madeof low cost thermoplastic materials, such as Polypropylene orpolyethylene. This is due to the fact that such thermoplastic materialsare of pliable property to be easily deformed for facilitating a bettermaneuverability and manageability. And more importantly, such plasticmaterials are inert to a wide range of chemicals and adapted to beapplied over a remarkable scope of temperatures. It is noted that thethermoplastic materials is selected from a group consisting ofpolypropylene, polybutylene, polyamides, ethylene/vinyl-acetatecopolymer, polyvinyl chloride, polyvinylidine chloride, and so on.

The perforated tear line 110 is purposely arranged onto each individualdisposable glove 10 for dividing the disposable glove 10 into a waistportion 11 and a hand portion 12, wherein the waist portion 11 could besuperposed with other waist portions 11 and be reinforced orstrengthened by two mounting wings 21 of the clamp holder 20 to form arigid hanging holder with respect to the downwardly suspended pliablehand portions 12. Preferably, the perforated tear line 110 is arrangedat a position adjacent to the lower edges of the mounting wings 21. Itis noted that the perforated tear line 110 could be applied as a groovedweaken line for easier manufacture in case of the glove material isthick.

According to the preferred embodiment of the present invention, theclamp holder 20 is a rigid plastic strap bisectionally folded togenerate a pair of symmetrical mounting wings 21 respectively wrapped uponto both sides of the glove stack 101 for retaining the waist portions11 of the glove stack 101 in position. On the other hand, the waistportions 11 of the plurality of disposable gloves 10 are be reinforcedor stiffened by thematically fusing the waist portions 11 into anintegrated holding part 102 while the hand portions 12 of all disposablegloves 10 are downwardly suspended thereof, wherein the tear line 110are markedly exposed from the integrated holding part 102 for graduallyand subsequently peeling off the outermost disposable glove 10 inconvenience. In other words, the waist portions 11 of the glove stack101 could be formed as a rigid strap for supporting the dangling glovesin purposes.

In other words, the clamp holder 20 enable the waist portions 11 and thehand portions 12 stand in sharp contrast, wherein the stiffened waistportions 11 are retained and reinforced by the mounting wings 21 of theclamp holder 20, whereas the hand portions 12 of the disposable gloves10 are extended from the clamp holder 20 with a suspended manner.

Furthermore, the clamp holder 20 has means 22 for detachably attachingsuch clamp holder 20 onto an ambient object, such as a hook, a belt, arod, and so on. In the preferred embodiment, the attaching means 22 aretwo through holes penetrating the mounting wings 21 at an upperposition, as shown in FIG. 1 and FIG. 2. As a result, the user is ableto freely hang the clamp holder 20 at his or her belt, a wall hook, orany other nearby objects. By the way, the attaching means 22 could beembodied as snaps, buttons, screws, Velcro fastener, as well as zippersfor detachably attaching the clamp holder onto nearby objects.Preferably, the hanging disposable glove cartridge 1 of the presentinvention is supposed to detachably attached onto the user' belt, suchthat a user could carry such glove cartridge on his two sides duringoperating procedure.

As shown in FIG. 2, each of the hand portions 12 has a first layer 121bordered with the perforated tear line 110 and a second layer 122 havinga peripheral edge 123 seamed with the first layer 121. In other words,each of the hand portions 122 is formed of two layers of thermoplasticfilm, namely the first layer 121 and the second layer 122, which areseamlessly sealed along the peripheral edge. Here, the first layer 121and the second layer 122 could be shaped to form a human hand shape,such as a five-finger glove or a thumb/multi-finger mitten. Since thesecond layer 122 is welded onto the first layer 121 along the human handshape peripheral edge, the elongated opening 31 would be automaticallyformed transversely spanning on two lateral edges of the hand portion12. Since the disposable glove cartridge 1 of the present invention isdetachably attached to a nearby object, the glove stack 101 would besupported in a suspended manner. As a result, the elongated opening 31would be upwardly orientated, such that a user is able to quickly andeasily slip his or her hand into such elongated opening 31 withoutfurther effort. What is more, the weight of the second layer 122 wouldmore or less downwardly deform the elongated opening 31 for facilitatingsuch hand-insertion movement.

Moreover, it is noted that the thermoplastic first layer 121 and secondlayer 122 provide excellent touch sensitivity and seamlessly sealedintact for provide a waterproof function. Accordingly, hand portion 12is grease and oil resistant, and impervious to water based solutions.

In short, a primary goal of the present invention is to provide ahanging disposable glove cartridge 1, such that a user is able toconveniently carry such cartridge to constantly and subsequentlyretrieve new gloves in a handy manner. For example, the glove cartridge1 could be attached onto the user's utility belt at a position adjacentto user's hand, such that the user is able to naturally extend his orher hand into each individual glove without any intended maneuver. Andmore importantly, the elongated opening 31 would ensure the human handslip into the hand cavity without any undesirable hassles. That is tosay, the elongated opening 31 would substantially reduce the likelihoodof two layers 121, 122 stick together.

Alternatively, the clamp holder 20 could be applied as a clipper 20′having two mounting wings 21′ directly clamping the glove stack 101 inposition as shown in FIG. 3. As a result, the clamp holder 20 would havea degree of rigidity significantly greater than the disposable gloves 10and extend across the wrist portion 12 of the outermost one of the glovestack 101 for sandwiching the glove stack 101 in position. It is worthto mention that the clipper 20′ is engaged onto the waist portion 11well above the tear line 110. Therefore, the clamp holder 20 could beembodied as conventional clippers made of wood, rigid plastics as wellas metals. Such clippers could be shifted between an open position and aclose position.

When the clipper 20′ is folded into the open position, the plurality ofdisposable gloves 10 are stacked with an aligned manner to form theglove stack 101 for a quick operation. Since each disposable glove 10includes a perforated tear line 110 across the glove for dividing thedisposable glove 10 into the waist portion 11 and the hand portion 12.Afterwards, the waist portions 12 of the glove stack is disposed betweentwo mounting wings 21′ of the clipper 20′. On the other hand, in theclosed position, the pair of mounting wings 21′ is inwardly folded forclamping the glove stacks 101 as shown in FIG. 4. Commonly, each of themounting wings 21 has a straight edge, which is purposely positionedadjacent to the tear line 110 with a parallel manner. It is noted thatsuch clipper 20 further comprises a click-on element 22′ integrally fromthe clipper 20 for assisting the clipper 20′ detachably attached ontouser's belt as shown in FIG. 3.

One skilled in the art will understand that the embodiment of thepresent invention as shown in the drawings and described above isexemplary only and not intended to be limiting.

It will thus be seen that the objects of the present invention have beenfully and effectively accomplished. It embodiments have been shown anddescribed for the purposes of illustrating the functional and structuralprinciples of the present invention and is subject to change withoutdeparture form such principles. Therefore, this invention includes allmodifications encompassed within the spirit and scope of the followingclaims.

1. A hanging disposable glove cartridge, comprising: a plurality ofdisposable gloves alignedly overlapped with each other to form a glovestack, wherein each of said disposable gloves has a transverseperforated tear line s spanned thereon for dividing said disposableglove into a waist portion and a hand portion; and a clamp holder, whichcomprises a pair of mounting wings for substantially sandwiching saidglove stack there-between at a position above said tear lines of saiddisposable gloves, and means for attaching said clamp holder to anobject so as to enable said disposable gloves attached onto said objectwith an individually suspended manner; wherein each of said handportions has a first layer bordered said perforated tear line and asecond layer having a peripheral edge seamed with said first layer so asto form a hand cavity between said first layer and said second layer forreceiving a human hand, and automatically leave an elongated openingadjacent to said perforated tear line for permitting said human handslipped into said hand cavity to peel off said hand portion of anoutermost disposable glove of said glove stack from said cartridge. 2.The glove cartridge, as recited in claim 1, wherein said disposablegloves are made of thermoplastic materials selected from a groupconsisting of polypropylene, polybutylene, polyamides,ethylene/vinyl-acetate copolymer, polyvinyl chloride, polyvinylidinechloride, and so on for ensuring said disposable gloves with a pliableproperty.
 3. The glove cartridge, as recited in claim 1, wherein saidwaist portions of said disposable gloves are superposed together andreinforced by said two mounting wings, each of said mounting wings has alower edge positioned adjacent to said tear line.
 4. The glovecartridge, as recited in claim 2, wherein said waist portions of saiddisposable gloves are superposed together and reinforced by said twomounting wings, each of said mounting wings has a lower edge positionedadjacent to said tear line.
 5. The glove cartridge, as recited in claim1, wherein said clamp holder is a rigid plastic strap bisectionallyfolded to generate a pair of symmetrical said mounting wingsrespectively wrapped up onto either side of said glove stack forretaining said waist portions of said glove stack 101 in position. 6.The glove cartridge, as recited in claim 4, wherein said clamp holder isa rigid plastic strap bisectionally folded to generate a pair ofsymmetrical said mounting wings respectively wrapped up onto either sideof said glove stack for retaining said waist portions of said glovestack 101 in position.
 7. The glove cartridge, as recited in claim 1,wherein said waist portions of said plurality of disposable gloves arestiffened by thematically fusing said waist portions into an integratedholding part while said hand portions of said disposable gloves aredownwardly suspended thereof, wherein said tear lines are markedlyexposed from said integrated holding part for gradually and subsequentlypeeling off said outermost disposable glove in convenience.
 8. The glovecartridge, as recited in claim 5, wherein said waist portions of saidplurality of disposable gloves are stiffened by thematically fusing saidwaist portions into an integrated holding part while said hand portionsof said disposable gloves are downwardly suspended thereof, wherein saidtear lines are markedly exposed from said integrated holding part forgradually and subsequently peeling off said outermost disposable glovein convenience.
 9. The glove cartridge, as recited in claim 6, whereinsaid waist portions of said plurality of disposable gloves are stiffenedby thematically fusing said waist portions into an integrated holdingpart while said hand portions of said disposable gloves are downwardlysuspended thereof, wherein said tear lines are markedly exposed fromsaid integrated holding part for gradually and subsequently peeling offsaid outermost disposable glove in convenience.
 10. The glove cartridge,as recited in claim 1, wherein said first layer and said second layer ofsaid hand portion are human-hand shaped to form a five-finger glove. 11.The glove cartridge, as recited in claim 8, wherein said first layer andsaid second layer of said hand portion are human-hand shaped to form afive-finger glove.
 12. The glove cartridge, as recited in claim 1,wherein said first layer and said second layer of said hand portion arehuman-hand shaped to form a thumb/multi-finger mitten.
 13. The glovecartridge, as recited in claim 8, wherein said first layer and saidsecond layer of said hand portion are human-hand shaped to form athumb/multi-finger mitten.
 14. The glove cartridge, as recited in claim1, wherein said elongated opening is upwardly orientated and easilydeformed for facilitating a hand-insertion action.
 15. The glovecartridge, as recited in claim 10, wherein said elongated opening isupwardly orientated and easily deformed for facilitating ahand-insertion action.
 16. The glove cartridge, as recited in claim 13,wherein said elongated opening is upwardly orientated and easilydeformed for facilitating a hand-insertion action.
 17. The glovecartridge, as recited in claim 1, wherein said clamp holder is a clipperfor shifting said two mounting wings between an opening position and aclosing position, wherein at said opening position, said disposablegloves are stacked with an aligned manner to form said glove stack to bedisposed between two said two mounting wings , and at said closingposition, said two mounting wings are inwardly folded for clamping saidglove stacks.
 18. The glove cartridge, as recited in claim 6, whereinsaid clamp holder is a clipper for shifting said two mounting wingsbetween an opening position and a closing position, wherein at saidopening position, said disposable gloves are stacked with an alignedmanner to form said glove stack to be disposed between two said twomounting wings , and at said closing position, said two mounting wingsare inwardly folded for clamping said glove stacks.
 19. The glovecartridge, as recited in claim 9, wherein said clamp holder is a clipperfor shifting said two mounting wings between an opening position and aclosing position, wherein at said opening position, said disposablegloves are stacked with an aligned manner to form said glove stack to bedisposed between two said two mounting wings , and at said closingposition, said two mounting wings are inwardly folded for clamping saidglove stacks.
 20. The glove cartridge, as recited in claim 16, whereinsaid clamp holder is a clipper for shifting said two mounting wingsbetween an opening position and a closing position, wherein at saidopening position, said disposable gloves are stacked with an alignedmanner to form said glove stack to be disposed between two said twomounting wings , and at said closing position, said two mounting wingsare inwardly folded for clamping said glove stacks.